Thinking of Getting a Digital Assistant Device? Think Again
According to recent data, nearly 6 million Australians own digital assistant devices (DADs) like Google Home, Amazon Alexa and Amazon Echo. And it’s easy to understand why - for as little as a couple of hundred dollars, these cool little...
Transgender Woman Complains Against Beauticians Who Refused to Wax Her Crotch
In recent weeks, the Victorian Government has reintroduced a bill to Parliament which would make it easier for people to change the gender recorded on their birth certificate to male, female or any other gender descriptor of their choice. The...
Domestic Violence – How Many More Rhonda Bakers Have to Die?
Rhonda Baker’s story is an all too familiar one. It’s disturbingly plagued with all of the ‘obvious’ elements of a typical partner violence situation that resulted in her death. 31-year old Onitolosi Etuini Atiai Latu was recently sentenced to a...
People, Not Just Numbers. Missing Persons’ Week
For many of us, they’re just sad headlines, but for the families of those who’ve gone missing, the trauma of uncertainty can be permanent. Every day in Australia, people disappear without a trace. Which is hard to fathom in this...
Public Sector Workers Can Be Sacked for Political Posts
Since 2013, Michaela Banerji has been fighting her former employer, The Australian Federal Government, in an attempt to defend her freedom of political communication - a freedom that is implied in the Australian Constitution. This week, she lost her case...
NSW May Finally Repeal the Crime of Abortion
A bill before parliament will overturn laws that were set down in 1900 which make abortion a criminal offence. New South Wales is the only jurisdiction in Australia that has not yet repealed criminal laws against abortion. But that may...
Desperate and Hungry: Struggling to Survive on Newstart
In a raw series produced by the Guardian Newspaper earlier this year called “On the Breadline,” a group of Australians opened up, telling their own personal stories of what it’s like to be struggling to make ends meet. What most...
The Defence of Mental Illness in New South Wales
Being found not guilty by reason of mental illness isn’t just the stuff of good fiction crime novels, as a recent case in the Supreme Court of New South Wales demonstrates. In that case, a 38-year old father who stabbed...
Justified or a Step Too Far? Sydney Council Bans Smoking in Public
In 2014, we wrote about the additional rules placed on the sale and consumption of tobacco across the nation, and asked the question: Will smoking ever be banned in Australia? Now in 2019, it seems this could occur in the...
Tax Office Attacks Client Legal Privilege
During his speech at the Law Society’s 2016 Opening of Term Dinner, NSW Chief Justice Tom Bathurst made clear he had identified 397 state laws that encroach upon three fundamental legal protections alone – the presumption of innocence, the right...
